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by ve55 6y ago
It's crazy how vast and powerful databases of even the most simple things turn out to be. You just store characters and context information when someone types them, and this is the result. Using this data alongside ML, you could do thi
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by ve55 6y ago
I think it definitely does. Is this AGI, or even close to it? No. But is it in the direction of AGI, or otherwise some small building block of it, that when worked on for decades, may contribute? Definitely
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by ve55 6y ago
It's probably very high, but a lot of competitors have been gaining some market share (maybe less proportionally, since the market obviously is increasing still) too, maybe the largest two being Azure and GCP
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by ve55 6y ago
>the company captures $4 out of every $10 spent online This should be rephrased as it's only for consumer product purchases
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Coinbase’s response to recent proposed rulemaking from the US Treasury, FinCEN(blog.coinbase.com)
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Kivy: Cross-Platform Python Framework for UI Development(kivy.org)
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by ve55 6y ago
In my opinion the story isn't about what was done to 'deserve' or to not deserve the ban, it's that there doesn't have to be any transparency, accountability, or anything of the sort. Now that bans from services can
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Controlling GPT-3 with Logit Bias(medium.com)
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by ve55 6y ago
This is an important point to make; usually I am in favor of letting people do anything that they want to, however, the higher-risk it is, the more we should require them to demonstrate knowledge of that risk. But, critically, I'd pref
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by ve55 6y ago
If I owned MindGeek I don't think I'd be too open about it either given the types of articles I'd start seeing on the front pages of outlets about me. What do they expect?
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by ve55 6y ago
It's an option to note, I haven't used them as I'm not sure I'd have a good chance of being able to get what I want (since obviously there has to be a seller for me to buy), and the fees also seem pretty notable (5%, and
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by ve55 6y ago
Coinbase is more about the ecosystem than BTC itself. It's likely that BTC doing well is good for Coinbase, yes, but they stand to benefit from many other things, including other cryptocurrencies, more users adopting it (while the pric
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by ve55 6y ago
Going public comes with a lot of work, expectations, obligations, and has a high requirement for corporate maturity. It's not easy, not always desirable, and it's definitely not feasible to do early on most of the time. I think wh
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Awesome Window Manager(awesomewm.org)
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by ve55 6y ago
That's true, but a charity doesn't (usually) actually use the stock - they would sell it to spend it when they needed the money, and I think (perhaps I'm not correct here since I don't have data) they generally sell equi
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by ve55 6y ago
I would assume that they'd have wealth scheduled to be given away post-death, so that accidental/premature death wouldn't be too bad, yes. But that's an interesting point of how it can be difficult to give away fast enou
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by ve55 6y ago
Haha, yes. I was trying to think of a way to phrase "Jeff Bezos is probably better at compounding his personal wealth than most people". I think what you've noted is perhaps the best counter-argument, but it's difficult
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by ve55 6y ago
One thing that I wish was considered more often when looking at effective philanthropy is the opportunity cost of the money in terms of amount donated over time. For example, assume someone like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos had donated all of t
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by ve55 6y ago
For those wishing to hear patio11 speak in this podcast, it appears that his audio starts at around 24:16 in from http://www.thinkingpoker.net/Podcast/Ep341.mp3 (correct me if it's earlier but I don't hear an
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by ve55 6y ago
I've been approaching my record recently of 8-14 per day, but short-term burnout comes and goes, and I'm only doing it since I'm working for myself. There are definitely limits, but it varies from person to person. If I actua
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by ve55 6y ago
Network effects are a powerful force. (You and most here likely know this, but something about social media network effects seems... almost inherently unfair to me sometimes. Users really cannot switch to alternative platforms and product
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by ve55 6y ago
"We recognize there's always more to do. For example, while problematic misinformation represents a fraction of 1% of what's watched on YouTube in the U.S., we know we can bring that number down even more." Is this reall
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by ve55 6y ago
The interesting thing about the methodology page is that it consistently uses strongly-worded and reassuring terms, but at no point do they mention any numbers or statistics whatsoever . It's made to appear as if they're transpar
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by ve55 6y ago
It's worth noting that the NYT's 'best seller' list is hand-curated, and is not an objective list of books that have sold the most.
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by ve55 6y ago
Is there any evidence that removal of content one believes to be false actually achieves the remover's goals of changing the opinions of the potential viewers? I would personally be quite upset if I found platforms deleting content tha
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by ve55 6y ago
A meeting room filled with endless cameras and censors to record and judge every facial expression and body movement I make... Do they purposefully make these patent diagrams look as dystopic as possible?
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by ve55 6y ago
I agree with the author that optimizing for virality as the bottom line is a disaster than can only go on for so long. Its consequences are obvious at this point, and it's not leading to good places anywhere it is applied en masse. (Fo
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“Hello, World ” in zero lines of code(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
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by ve55 6y ago
I think the parent comment is more asking "Even if I sign my name, what will this petition actually do?" e.g. "Why ask Amazon to voluntarily pay more in taxes when this will clearly never happen, when instead we could ask tha
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by ve55 6y ago
I think a lot of people don't appreciate the fact of how terrible HN would be if the moderators decidedly to complete leave for a set amount of time (and I love HN as it is, just there is a lot of bad content that gets (auto)remove

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